About iPhone Campus

What is iPhone Campus?

iPhone Campus is a collaboration to build and share the iPhone and iPod touch information, including how to, tricks, hacks, jailbreak, unlock, application reviews, news, and application development. Imagine if every iPhone user on Earth had an expert coach who could teach them how to do anything on iPhone. Eventually, our site should contain accurate instructions on almost every imaginable topic about iPhone. By contributing your knowledge to iPhone Campus, you will be helping iPhone users all over the world learn something new.

How does iPhone Campus work?

It takes a lot of people to weed the iPhone Campus.

iPhone Campus is a wiki, which is a web site that anyone can write and anyone can edit. Any visitor to iPhone Campus can create a new page to write about how to do something. Once the page is submitted, any other visitor can edit, improve, or change the page. Over time, the quality of the page rises as many people make improvements. All changes on the site are displayed on "recent changes" and also in the "page history" of each specific article. iPhone Campus works because we trust our users to behave in a manner which helps others. As a result, our users quickly remove vandalism, nonsense, and material that is inappropriate for our iPhone guild.

How can I help?

Please improve iPhone Campus by editing any page that needs help. Browse our articles in the early stages of development and see if you can add some information. If you are a good speller, these articles will benefit from your expertise. Share your knowledge if you can find a topic not yet covered by writing a new page by clicking "Create a iPhone Campus Article" in the left side bar of most pages on the site. If you need ideas of topics to write you can look at a list of suggested articles made by other users. Be sure to search first, though, as many of the suggested articles have already been written. You are welcome to edit any existing page you find on the site. Read this page to learn more ways to contribute to iPhone Campus. Take the iPhone Campus Tour to learn more even more.

Some Guidelines

Consider the following when interacting on iPhone Campus.

1. Be civil. Be kind, supportive, and friendly to those you are collaborating with. Assume good faith in others. We are all here to write a great how-to manual.
2. Be bold. If you think your action will advance our mission, do it!
3. Don't spam us. Please only add external links if the site was used as reference for information you added to an article.
4. Expect your writing to be modified, critiqued, and improved by others. Changes should be viewed in the spirit of improvement and not as a negative criticism of your approach or capabilities.

Want to join the community?

While you don't need to register to read, write, or edit on iPhone Campus, registering and officially joining the community provides several advantages. To register, click on User login in the upper right corner of most pages.

Can I help make iPhone Campus in my language?

Yes! Right now, iPhone Campus is predominantly for English speakers only, which is unfortunate. Ideally, iPhone Campus should be freely available to people all over the world in their own language. Multilingual iPhone Campuss will come soon. You can also sign up to help create a new iPhone Campus in your language.

Keep up to date with what is happening

You can keep up to date with what is happening at iPhone Campus by reading the forums or subscribe the iPhone Campus Herald RSS.

Creative Commons Licensed

iPhone Campus licenses all content under a Creative Commons License. This license allows iPhone Campus content to be used freely by any organization or person for any non-commercial purpose. Allowing free republication of our content helps achieve iPhone Campus's mission by offering our instructions to the problems of everyday life to even more people for free.

iPhone Campus will always be free

iPhone Campus is available to anyone in the world free of charge. Our goal is to help as many people as possible by sharing our instructions and therefore we will never charge for access to the site.

How does iPhone Campus support itself financially?

iPhone Campus needs funds to sustain its operations, but rather than ask our users for contributions, we have chosen to display tasteful, non-obnoxious advertising on the website. We do not have pop-up ads, pop-under ads, spyware, or other scumware. Our advertising is highly minimal. In fact, we don't show advertising at all to registered users. We think that tasteful advertising is the most unobtrusive way to fund our operations. For more information, you can read the history of iPhone Campus here and find an answer to the question "is iPhone Campus a non-profit?" here.